R/pirating

This is oftentimes a clone of the original awesome r/pirating repo.

Even if you've never used Reddit , you've no doubt heard of it; it's one of the largest sites in the US , and with more than 2 million "subreddits," it has a stunning depth and breadth of content. With all that activity, it's not surprising that Reddit has become a hub for digital piracy , and the site has struggled with managing copyright violations for several years. With more than , members, it was created in with the mission of being "a community dedicated to the discussion of digital piracy," according to its own description. That you can find discussions of the vulnerabilities of piracy laws on Reddit is unsurprising. Given the subject matter, the piracy subreddit attempts to thread a particularly precarious needle.

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It seems like rights holders have realized that carpet bombing is a cheap and "effective" strategy. This strategy appears to be having a chilling effect across multiple platforms. Copyright claims are super easy to make at scale, but the platforms themselves cannot investigate at scale, meaning the small guy suffers. Yes, redditers who are truly infringing should have their posts removed, but the result of trigger-happy, likely bot controled complaints is having an effect on legal speech. After the new EU copyright directive passed parliament, I went on a bit of a hunt for reasons. Outside Germany, we simply didn't get traction for protest. And one reason people gave was "it won't be enforcable anyhow". This here clearly shows what Germans have known for years thanks to our stupid "Abmahnwesen" legal abnormality: enforcement is not the bottleneck when private entities sue other private entities. And there's equally no reason to believe those will be spared by the copyright industry and their lawyers. I consider it an unfortunate attitude that breeds cynicism and allows laws to be passed that simply express a desire, rather than laws that might make things better. I understand there can be protest exhaustion and one has to pick one's battles. Mirioron on April 8, root parent prev next [—]. In Estonia there was barely any talk about article When it passed it was a 3 sentence article in the national newspaper. We had some follow up later, but it was mostly a politician saying that everything's fine.

The thing about 4chan is that it's got a shitton of boards, and those boards are like kind of like, say, r/pirating, subreddits - they're pretty self-contained and have distinct communities. Can't r/pirating I agree, Libgen alone has plenty more.

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Reddit is trying to clean-up its act — and it's taking on illegal streaming in a big way. A decade of discussion about digital piracy is being methodically erased from the subreddit, sparked by takedown notices on two-year-old posts. No-one should expect the deletion of a few dozen links to dent piracy, though it may have a chilling effect on simply talking about it. But in mid-March, the moderators received a letter from Reddit's lawyers , warning that the group risks being shut down after 74 copyright complaints via the US DMCA system. In response, the subreddit's moderators have started deleting any posts older than six months, in an effort to avoid any further complaints resulting in the group being banned from Reddit.

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Now, those early actions have swelled up into multiple bans across similar subreddits, marking a new push by the platform to rid itself of copyright-violating users. Thanks to a series of copyright cases recently filed in the United States, companies now have greater leverage when it comes to taking action against repeat offenders. The group regularly linked out to external sites that hosted illegal streams of copyrighted films and shows. There are still at least a couple subreddits aiming to continue the business of torrenting and streaming. Two subreddits display images with clearer language on why they were banned. That may change if enough users use the subreddit to share files, which the mods currently discourage and punish. Joseph Knoop is a gaming writer for Daily Dot, a native Chicagoan, and a slave to all things Overwatch. He co-founded the college geek culture outlet ByteBSU, then interned at Game Informer, and now writes for a bunch websites his parents have never heard of.

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Email Twitter icon A stylized bird with an open mouth, tweeting. Media Centre Applications. Open Directories. CableGorilla on April 8, parent prev [—]. With more than , members, it was created in with the mission of being "a community dedicated to the discussion of digital piracy," according to its own description. I wonder why regulations target content sharing platforms, not the content itself. Plex Transcoding. These communities' owners and participants were basically just doing free work by producing content. It indicates a way to close an interaction, or dismiss a notification. It didn't help that a huge chunk of the old userbase fled around the time of Gamergate due to controversies about it on the site itself. Traster on April 8, parent prev next [—].

Even if you've never used Reddit , you've no doubt heard of it; it's one of the largest sites in the US , and with more than 2 million "subreddits," it has a stunning depth and breadth of content.

With more than , members, it was created in with the mission of being "a community dedicated to the discussion of digital piracy," according to its own description. FTP Indexers. Seedbox Setup Tools and Guides. Plex Scripts and Tools. HD Streaming. The book pirating scene is poor though. Try Disboard. It symobilizes a website link url. Packages 0 No packages published. But it's not Internet culture and there should be more uniform condemnation and outrage from the traditionally marginalized communities who took to the Internet earlier, rather than mental gymnastics justifying how censorship is great when it's deployed against today's undesirables. Avamander on April 8, parent prev next [—]. Piracy happens via other portals, like Google Drive. Gifts Angle down icon An icon in the shape of an angle pointing down. A platform doesn't have to publish your work, which means that their private solution for takedowns will not be held to that requirement. There are lots of subject matter discussion platforms that never go trough this phase as a natural consequence of having primary concerns that isn't simply growing MAU numbers.